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Francoist Spain remained officially neutral during World War II but maintained close political and economic ties to Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy throughout the period of the Holocaust. Before the war, Francisco Franco had taken power in Spain at the head of a coalition of fascist, monarchist, and conservative political factions in the Spanish ...
Although a little known fact, Spanish diplomats helped save many of their own Sephardic (Spanish) Jews during World War Two. Three Spanish diplomats in three different locales – Bernardo Rolland in Paris, Sebastián Romero Radigales in Greece, and Julio Palencia in Bulgaria – made surprising and systematic efforts to save the Sephardim from ...
During World War II, thousands of refugees crossed these peaks to escape the Nazis. Today Perseguits i Salvats, Persecuted and Saved, a 2013 initiative created by the Deputation of Lleida...
(Spanish) Jews during World War Two. Three Spanish diplomats in three different locales – Bernardo Rolland in Paris, Sebastián Romero Radigales in Greece, and Julio Palencia in Bulgaria – made surprising and systematic efforts to save the Sephardim from the Nazis. Why was Spain, a fascist country and German ally, helpful to Jews during the ...
Spain and the Jews in the Second World War was allowed for those who could prove they were not baptized Catholics. All this was not because of hostility to a few hundred Jews, but because the civil war had been fought, among other reasons, to restore the dominance of Catholicism in its peculiarly intolerant Spanish form.
Apr 18, 2022 · 1 Breckinridge Long, the antisemite Special Assistant Secretary of State in charge of problems arising from the war, was the main culprit in denying U.S. immigration visas, which went unused, to German and other Jews.
Spain, Refuge for Jews Fleeing Nazism during the Second World War. In S. Brenneis & G. Herrmann (Ed.), Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation (pp. 115-124). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
